{"id":2739,"date":"2015-01-12T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2015-01-11T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T04:39:43","slug":"everything-must-focus-on-evangelization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"EVERYTHING MUST FOCUS ON EVANGELIZATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"1103\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"368\">For Eugene the central focus for all Oblates had to be evangelization, and in particular the preaching of parish renewal missions. All time and energy had to be used for this purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Our vocation being the missions, only by obedience must one do anything else. So direct Fr. Martin to use the free time that is left to him to prepare some instructions.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Hippolyte Courtes, 27 September 1827, EO VII n 283<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was this ideal that he reminded Fr Suzanne about regarding the time he was spending writing a book:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>As to the matter in question, I am certainly very agreeable that you employ your leisure in composing something useful and, while admiring the dispositions of your heart and the detachment that you observe towards what you have produced and with which you have taken much trouble, never shall I put you to the trial of sacrificing them. All that I desire is that you be well persuaded that a good catechism, if it converts many souls, ought to be preferred to the most beautiful written work.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Eugene found out that Fr. Court\u00e8s was contemplating writing a novel, and this was the last straw:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Is it not unseemly that I learn only yesterday that Fr. C[ourt\u00e8s] plans to do some kind of novel, and that I learn of it by chance from someone other than himself. If the plan is such that I have been told about, he can dispense himself from writing it, for I will tear it up with my own hands.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Marius Suzanne, 5 October 1827, EO VII n 285<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 Anne Lamott<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Eugene the central focus for all Oblates had to be evangelization, and in particular the preaching of parish renewal missions. All time and energy had to be used for this purpose. Our vocation being the missions, only by obedience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[75,114],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-evangelisation","tag-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}